Seaside is a VRML world created using Universal
Media textures (instructions for viewing Seaside are below).
Once the world loads, walk around the room and then click on the door to exit. Examine the
outside walls and roof. Explore the surrounding seaside. Can you find the boat? If so, jump in and
examine the wonderful wooden finish while it rocks back and
forth.

Seaside was created by Gerardo Quintieri.

Seaside uses nearly
400K of Universal Media textures, while the gZip compressed
VRML world itself is only 25K. As a result, Universal Media
allows this world to load nearly TWENTY TIMES FASTER than it normally would if Universal Media is installed!

With Universal Media, the

entire
Seaside world (including textures) actually loads faster than
the JPEG screenshot at the top of this page. The above JPEG
image is 36K, all of which must be downloaded from the
network. Only 25K of the Seaside world travels over the wire,
while 400K of textures are fetched from the hard drive.

Open the
Seaside demo at 640x480.
You can resize the Seaside window as
needed...